Colorado Skies: Astronomers are investigating the mystery of the missing mass

Colorado Skies: Astronomers are investigating the mystery of the missing mass

One of the more interesting, fascinating and puzzling aspects of the universe for astronomers has been the nearly century-old “Case of the Missing Mass.” In recent years this topic has risen to “frontier” status in both astronomy and physics. The mysterious anomaly was first noted by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in the early 1930s.  Zwicky found that the individual gala​xies in a cluster of galaxies such as the Virgo Cluster are internally movi…